Article by Christina Nealson Residential construction – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine THE LITTLE PIG crouched in fear. The wolf was at the door, and was prepared to huff and puff and blow the house down.

Sidebar by Kym O’Connell-Todd Transportation History – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazines. Anyone who is interested in the restoration of the Alpine Tunnel and can offer the following help should call Ray Rossman at the Gunnison Forest Service office at 303-641-0471:

Sidebar by Kym O’Connell-Todd Transportation History – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine Enthusiasm was high — the tension even greater — during the rail race of 1879. Two narrow-gauge railroad companies, the Denver and Rio Grande (D&RG) Railroad and the Denver South Park and Pacific Railroad (DSP&P), fought neck to neck to reach the […]

Article by Kym O’Connell-Todd Transportation History – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine At a little more than 11,500 feet above the tides, a small wooden building leans into whistling tundra wind. Abandoned for many years and left as a makeshift home to marmots and other mountaintop squatters, the little depot still shares the snow-patched […]

Article by Marcia Darnell Local Artist – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine There are no trees around Peggy Godfrey’s ranch house. No shrubs or flower beds adorn the wood-and-glass home. But what it lacks in foliage it makes up in fauna. Ewes and their lambs crowd the fence nearest the house, hoping for a […]

Brief by Central Staff Various – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine Money laundering SALIDA — The next time a student says that a dog ate his homework, elementary teacher Judy Boshinski should be sympathetic. Last April she cashed her paycheck, put the money in an envelope, and left it on a dresser in her […]

Article by Martha Quillen Rural medicine – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine Buena Vista just wanted another doctor. But when the town started searching for a new physician, it got more than it bargained for.

Essay by T.L. Livermore Recreation – July 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine My first foray into rafting took place on the Arkansas, in Brown’s Canyon, in an Achilles owned by a friend who insisted it would be fun. He promised to show me holes, places where the river turns back on itself.